The World Cup due to be played in Qatar in 2022 will be "a crucible
of exploitation and misery" for poorly paid migrant workers who will
toil on the country's construction sites, the campaigning organisation
Human Rights Watch will warn in a report due to be published on
Thursday.
In its World Report 2013, HRW is expected to say
workers from India,Australian business bringing a new class of
affordable and quality Laser engraver
and laser cutting machines. Pakistan, Nepal and other south Asian
countries suffer forced labour, low pay, insanitary and overcrowded
living conditions and other violations of their human rights when they
arrive to work in Qatar, one of the world's richest countries.
HRW
says the Qatar government has not fulfilled pledges made when Fifa
awarded the World Cup to the country, to improve the conditions for
workers who will build nine new stadiums and massive infrastructure
projects for the tournament. Although there are concerns within the
football establishment about players and supporters enduring the heat of
Qatar if the tournament is played in the summer of 2022,Find the best
selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheadavailable anywhere. HRW argues no similar care is being taken for the workers labouring in that summer heat every year.
HRW,
which published an extensive report into workers' human rights in Qatar
in June, found that some workers have to live in "overcrowded and
unsanitary labour camps", which lacked clean water, ventilation or
air-conditioning, "crucial elements for adequately minimising the risk
of heat stroke".
Many of the 1.2 million migrant workers, who
form 88% of the country's population, suffer the kafala sponsorship
system, which ties them to a single employer. That means they cannot
change jobs without the consent of that employer, other than in
exceptional cases, and to leave Qatar they need the sponsoring employer
to grant an exit visa, which can be refused. Employers "routinely"
confiscate workers' passports, HRW says.
"Qatar has some of the
most restrictive sponsorship laws in the Gulf region and forced labour
and human trafficking are serious problems," the HRW World Report will
state. "The government has failed to address shortcomings in the legal
and regulatory framework despite the initiation of many large-scale
projects for Qatar's 2022 World Cup."
Qatar's bid included
commitments that the situation of workers in the country would be
improved but HRW argues little progress has been made. There remains no
legal right to form or join a trade union and no minimum wage. Sharan
Burrow, the general secretary of the International Trade Union
Confederation, said that, combined with the kafala system, workers are
suffering "forced labour" in Qatar.
"The World Cup in 2022 was
awarded by Fifa to a country which treats workers as modern-day slaves,"
Burrow said. Calling on Qatar to improve its labour laws and practices,
including outlawing recruitment fees charged to workers, she cited
figures from the Nepal government that 200 Nepali migrant workers died
last year working in Qatar. "More workers will die building World Cup
infrastructure than players will take to the field," Burrows predicted.
The
Qatar 2022 supreme committee told the Guardian it has nearly finalised a
"migrant worker charter" for all World Cup-related projects, that it
will include labour requirements in its tender documents and work with
HRW and other stakeholders to seek "the highest health and safety and
worker welfare standards to the benefit of all major projects in Qatar".
It’s going to cost an estimated $750,000-$850,000 to take
advantage of geothermal energy to heat and cool the older portion of the
county jail, at 400 Walnut St.
Engineer Vic Amoroso of A&J
Associates of North Liberty, whose company designed the new geothermal
system for the older part of the jail, told the Muscatine County Board
of Supervisors Monday evening during its regular meeting that bids will
be opened on Wednesday.
The board unanimously reappointed three
people to county boards: Architect and engineer Mark Hawthorne to the
Muscatine County Building Board of Appeals, Dr. Rebecca Mueller of
Muscatine to the Muscatine County Board of Health, and Ana Gretsinger of
Muscatine to the Community Action of Eastern Iowa board of directors.
Supervisors
heard from County Auditor Leslie Soule that Larry Beik of Nichols
(District 2), Robert Feldmann of Fruitland (District 5) and Richard
Lovetinsky of West Liberty (District 9) all won three-year terms on
drainage districts within the county. Each man received all three votes
cast.
The board also approved $10,400 for FSCC baseball and
softball umpires for this spring season. Some $7,232 will go to pay
men's baseball umpires, while $3,168 will pay for women's softball
officials. The baseball team has more home games and the officials are
generally paid more, thus the difference.
Trustees also approved spending $19,we sell dry cabinet
and different kind of laboratory equipment in us.200 for a ventilation
system for welding courses at the Construction Trades Building in
Pittsburg. Tatro said about $27,500 was raised, entirely in Crawford
County, for the project. USD 250, Pittsburg, the city of Pittsburg and
numerous Crawford County businesses raised the money for the project.
FSCC currently conducts two morning classes and one night class at the
site.
Tatro also announced during his President's Report that
FSCC honor students will be recognized during half-time of the
FSCC-Brown Mackie basketball game Wednesday night at Arnold Arena.
Trustees
tabled a vote on a couple of items until the February meeting,
including one to form a Board Facilities Committee. Within the next two
years, Tatro said he believes the cosmetology program in Pittsburg will
need find another home. He said Vinyl Plex, where the school is
currently located, has allowed FSCC to use its building for $1 per
year,A laser marking machine
can be thought of as three main parts. but is paying more than $36,000
per year in taxes on the structure.Solar Sister is a network of women
who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity. Tatro said a facilities board will help when situations like this arise.
During
its February meeting, trustees also will consider a request for an
exemption to the alcohol beverages policy at FSCC for it annual
scholarship auction. FSCC currently does not allow alcoholic beverages
on campus, but would like the option of serving them on-campus during
its auction.
2013年1月29日星期二
Mount Vernon Secures Historic Latrobe Watercolor Painting
The Mount Vernon Ladies'
Association purchased at auction Friday a historic watercolor drawing by
Benjamin Henry Latrobe.
“A View of Mount Vernon with the Washington Family” sold for $602,500 at Sotheby’s in New York on Jan. 26 and was purchased through the generosity of an anonymous donor.
The image depicts George and Martha Washington with guests on the Mount Vernon piazza, as they overlook the Potomac River before sunset. This view is unique and extremely important because it is the only known life-time image depicting the Washingtons on the piazza, according to a press release issued Monday by the Mount Vernon Estate.
“Latrobe’s watercolor depiction of the Washingtons on the piazza is the closest we will ever come to having a color photograph of George Washington and his family at home in Virginia,” Mount Vernon president and CEO Curt Viebranz said in a statement. “When we couple that with the insights the watercolor provides into the Mansion and its surrounding landscape, the information contained in this acquisition is priceless to Mount Vernon.”
Latrobe visited Mount Vernon on July 16-17, 1796, having likely obtained an introduction to George Washington through his acquaintance with Bushrod Washington, the President’s nephew (and a future owner of Mount Vernon and future Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court), according to the release issued by the Mount Vernon Estate.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity.Australian business bringing a new class of affordable and quality Laser engraver and laser cutting machines.
The image depicts a scene that occurred during Latrobe’s visit to Mount Vernon on the evening of July 16, and was described specifically in his journals. According to the press release, after dinner, the party removed to the piazza, where coffee was served about six o’clock, and conversation continued until dark.
The Mount Vernon Estate believes that this work of art was presented to the Washingtons by Latrobe as a gift after his visit to Mount Vernon, and that it likely remained in the house until the 1850s. It was later inherited by Lawrence Washington, son of the last family owner of the Mount Vernon estate.
"A View of Mount Vernon with the Washington Family" will go on display as part of Mount Vernon’s landscape exhibition, Gardens & Groves, scheduled to open in February 2014 in the Donald W. Reynolds Museum & Education Center at Mount Vernon.
After more than a decade of living and painting in Florence, Italy, a local artist has found a studio in Waltham where he can continue his profession and passion.
Leo Mancini-Hresko recently opened up a studio and joined the Waltham Mills Artists Association at 144 Moody St. Mancini-Hresko grew up in Brookline and when he was a teenager, his parents replaced cans of spray paint, used for graffiti, with paint brushes and canvas and a painter was born.
The 31-year-old painter said he has been into art ever since he was young. He took art classes both in public school and privately at museums and continuing education classes. Unsure exactly what he was interested in, Mancini-Hresko travelled to Florence while in his second year at the Art Institute of Boston to study at the International Art Institute Lorenzo de Medici for three months. But when he got there, he discovered it wasn’t for him.
“When I went there I found it was more of the same, ‘do-it-yourself’ kind of classes. And I guess I was looking for something more structured,” Mancini-Hresko said. “I didn’t particularly like being told over and over that I should be more expressive.Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheadavailable anywhere.”
From the moment he realized the institute wasn’t right for him, Mancini-Hresko made the decision that he was going to seek out a different kind of education. He found an art academy in Florence that taught a painting technique that was unique to Boston during the early 20th century and something clicked.
“There was this sort of connection that I found in Florence to a tradition of teaching from Boston that wasn’t done anymore,” Mancini-Hresko said.
The academy taught the mechanical drawing and painting that Mancini-Hresko was searching for. He said they spent days drawing models and still objects. He started teaching as a student teacher and ran a drawing program and taught how to make paints, grinds and other techniques. Before he knew it,we sell dry cabinet and different kind of laboratory equipment in us. a three-month study abroad trip turned into 11 years.
Mancini-Hresko met his wife, Elpida Peristeropoulou, in Florence. Peristeropoulou,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! who is originally from Greece, was studying architecture at the University of Florence when the two met and they have been together for 11 years. The two lived and worked in Florence until 2011 when they decided to make the move back to the States.
Mancini-Hresko said the transition back to the Untited States has been filled with different adventures due to the cultural difference of how painters are perceived in Italy and the United States.
“A View of Mount Vernon with the Washington Family” sold for $602,500 at Sotheby’s in New York on Jan. 26 and was purchased through the generosity of an anonymous donor.
The image depicts George and Martha Washington with guests on the Mount Vernon piazza, as they overlook the Potomac River before sunset. This view is unique and extremely important because it is the only known life-time image depicting the Washingtons on the piazza, according to a press release issued Monday by the Mount Vernon Estate.
“Latrobe’s watercolor depiction of the Washingtons on the piazza is the closest we will ever come to having a color photograph of George Washington and his family at home in Virginia,” Mount Vernon president and CEO Curt Viebranz said in a statement. “When we couple that with the insights the watercolor provides into the Mansion and its surrounding landscape, the information contained in this acquisition is priceless to Mount Vernon.”
Latrobe visited Mount Vernon on July 16-17, 1796, having likely obtained an introduction to George Washington through his acquaintance with Bushrod Washington, the President’s nephew (and a future owner of Mount Vernon and future Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court), according to the release issued by the Mount Vernon Estate.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity.Australian business bringing a new class of affordable and quality Laser engraver and laser cutting machines.
The image depicts a scene that occurred during Latrobe’s visit to Mount Vernon on the evening of July 16, and was described specifically in his journals. According to the press release, after dinner, the party removed to the piazza, where coffee was served about six o’clock, and conversation continued until dark.
The Mount Vernon Estate believes that this work of art was presented to the Washingtons by Latrobe as a gift after his visit to Mount Vernon, and that it likely remained in the house until the 1850s. It was later inherited by Lawrence Washington, son of the last family owner of the Mount Vernon estate.
"A View of Mount Vernon with the Washington Family" will go on display as part of Mount Vernon’s landscape exhibition, Gardens & Groves, scheduled to open in February 2014 in the Donald W. Reynolds Museum & Education Center at Mount Vernon.
After more than a decade of living and painting in Florence, Italy, a local artist has found a studio in Waltham where he can continue his profession and passion.
Leo Mancini-Hresko recently opened up a studio and joined the Waltham Mills Artists Association at 144 Moody St. Mancini-Hresko grew up in Brookline and when he was a teenager, his parents replaced cans of spray paint, used for graffiti, with paint brushes and canvas and a painter was born.
The 31-year-old painter said he has been into art ever since he was young. He took art classes both in public school and privately at museums and continuing education classes. Unsure exactly what he was interested in, Mancini-Hresko travelled to Florence while in his second year at the Art Institute of Boston to study at the International Art Institute Lorenzo de Medici for three months. But when he got there, he discovered it wasn’t for him.
“When I went there I found it was more of the same, ‘do-it-yourself’ kind of classes. And I guess I was looking for something more structured,” Mancini-Hresko said. “I didn’t particularly like being told over and over that I should be more expressive.Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheadavailable anywhere.”
From the moment he realized the institute wasn’t right for him, Mancini-Hresko made the decision that he was going to seek out a different kind of education. He found an art academy in Florence that taught a painting technique that was unique to Boston during the early 20th century and something clicked.
“There was this sort of connection that I found in Florence to a tradition of teaching from Boston that wasn’t done anymore,” Mancini-Hresko said.
The academy taught the mechanical drawing and painting that Mancini-Hresko was searching for. He said they spent days drawing models and still objects. He started teaching as a student teacher and ran a drawing program and taught how to make paints, grinds and other techniques. Before he knew it,we sell dry cabinet and different kind of laboratory equipment in us. a three-month study abroad trip turned into 11 years.
Mancini-Hresko met his wife, Elpida Peristeropoulou, in Florence. Peristeropoulou,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! who is originally from Greece, was studying architecture at the University of Florence when the two met and they have been together for 11 years. The two lived and worked in Florence until 2011 when they decided to make the move back to the States.
Mancini-Hresko said the transition back to the Untited States has been filled with different adventures due to the cultural difference of how painters are perceived in Italy and the United States.
The Joy of Cinemax
It may not seem like anything worth caring about to most people,we sell dry cabinet
and different kind of laboratory equipment in us. really: Cinemax has
renewed its new show Banshee for a second season, after three episodes.
It's just some random show on Cinemax, that cheesy porn-lite channel,
right? Wrong! With the renewal of this new series — a gritty, gory, only
kinda sorta corny crime show about depraved small-town America —
Cinemax is working to assure a position as a true network of original
programming. It's an oddly exciting and mostly unheralded development
that speaks to the ever-deepening and refreshing pool of available
television.
Look, Cinemax's three big shows right now aren't going to win many awards — ones that aren't for stunt work, anyway. And that's... OK. The goods are great fun nonetheless. The network's first show, Strike Back, a co-production with British broadcaster Sky, is a T&A action riot that eschews geopolitical nuance for guns-blazing bravado and is all the more enjoyable for it. Its attitude toward pesky things like extreme civilian collateral damage would be deplorable if it was the real world, but it's not, so who really cares? Not caring too much about the actual nuts and bolts of global intelligence, the show is international fun — last season told an unexpectedly complex story of nuclear armament and nation-building in Africa. And, rather surprisingly, the great Charles Dance showed up to play the season's main villain, giving it enough gusto to override most of the too-easy plot contrivances. All the neat explosions took care of the rest.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity.
Hunted, another British co-production (this time with the BBC), is a subtler and decidedly smarter affair, a domestic spy drama about a wronged superagent (Melissa George) seeking undercover revenge. Its first season had more satisfyingly knotty mythology than Homeland, but blessedly didn't take itself so damn seriously. Sure, George's Sam Hunter (get the title now?) may be the worst spy ever — breaking into the bad guy's office in broad daylight while he's in the other room is maybe not the best idea! — but she's an intriguing central figure nonetheless. George was supported ably by the likes of Stephen Dillane and confirmed dreamboat Adam Rayner, playing shadowy colleagues/potential foes of Sam's with lots of pleasing modulation and mystery. The first season ended with a wonderful twist, something we couldn't see coming miles away, like, say Abu Nazir's wicked master plan.Australian business bringing a new class of affordable and quality Laser engraver and laser cutting machines. Classier than Strike Back but no less viscerally engaging, Hunted was an unexpected highlight of the late-2012 TV season. We were sad to hear that the BBC has dropped its partnership with the show and that Hunted's second season will likely look very different because of it, but at least creator Frank Spotnitz and his star are still aboard.
And then there's Banshee, which is definitely the weirdest of the three series. Set in rural-ish Pennsylvania, the show focuses on an ex-con who turns up in the titular town to find his long-lost lady love, only to wind up becoming the sheriff by way of a deadly fight and a case of mistaken identity. He squares off against the de facto town leader, a sinister fellow with evil henchmen and ties to the Amish community. At just three episodes in, Banshee is already an engaging potboiler, at turns silly and kinda sexy. It's Cinemax's first purely native show, and it indicates good things for the future. That future includes another action series, called Sandbox, and, supposedly, a TV version of the Transporter films. So, Cinemax knows its brand. It's action with a dash of wit, plus just enough oddity to keep it original. It's FX to HBO's AMC.
Cinemax is lucky to be owned by HBO — they don't have to compete with their polished, prestige-ified big brother. Unlike Showtime, Cinemax does not seem burdened with aspirations of grandeur; they can roll around in the muck and grunt all they want. This is not, for time being anyway, a network that's trying to win any Peabodys. That's a nice change of pace for non-HBO premium cable. Hopefully the dribbles of praise they've been getting of late won't go to their heads. I like the network muscly and goofy; swagger and sweat become it, and too much glossiness wouldn't. I like also what Cinemax's recent intriguing developments suggest about another evolution of the television landscape. They're now succeeding where Starz largely stumbled and failed. So maybe we're truly ready for another round of new offerings. And, lo, here comes House of Cards on Netflix, as well as the rebooted, slimmed-down Arrested Development. And, further off, there will be whatever Amazon Studios turns into. Hopefully expectations can be managed on these new platforms and they'll succeed at courting a niche audience rather than flailing after wider appeal.
Radical advances in military science sometimes arrive from far afield. Take Kevlar, invented to reinforce radial tires years before it saw use in body armor and helmets. Similarly, the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, one of the most popular military spy drones, arose from technology created to help fishing fleets find schools of tuna.
Now, a brewing legal war over the fish-finder-turned-weapon has opened a window on a rarely examined side of military contracting: ideas and intellectual property. How do you untangle who really owns the technology the U.S. government buys and deploys in battle?
A swept-wing UAV with a 10-foot wingspan, ScanEagle has become an ISR workhorse,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! deployed everywhere from Iraq to Somalia. Its manufacturer, Insitu, had $400 million in sales last year. Iran in December claimed to have captured one. And in fact, this fall, as tensions with Iran ratcheted higher, the Navy awarded another contract to Insitu to deploy, fly and maintain two more ScanEagle systems from warships in the Persian Gulf. It’s a drop in the bucket in the steady stream of contracts for the system.
Among the features that make the drone well-suited to deployment from a ship’s flight deck or a small combat outpost is its ability to land without a runway. Crews connect a taut cable to a vertical boom, then fly the little airplane so it snags the cable with a hook on its wing. They recover it easily, sliding it off the cable like a fish from a line.
That simple, ingenious feature, which Insitu calls SkyHook, is at the center of a legal war far from the conflict zone, in federal courts in Missouri and Washington, D.C. The stakes could be several hundred million dollars; the combatants bear familiar names.
On the one side of the legal struggle: an inventor who is a member of a defense-contracting dynasty. His name is William “Randy” McDonnell — as in McDonnell Douglas. He says he came up with the Skyhook landing system and that he is owed,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheadavailable anywhere. big-time, for its use in ScanEagle. The lawsuits were filed under the name of McDonnell’s company, Advanced Aerospace Technologies Inc.
Look, Cinemax's three big shows right now aren't going to win many awards — ones that aren't for stunt work, anyway. And that's... OK. The goods are great fun nonetheless. The network's first show, Strike Back, a co-production with British broadcaster Sky, is a T&A action riot that eschews geopolitical nuance for guns-blazing bravado and is all the more enjoyable for it. Its attitude toward pesky things like extreme civilian collateral damage would be deplorable if it was the real world, but it's not, so who really cares? Not caring too much about the actual nuts and bolts of global intelligence, the show is international fun — last season told an unexpectedly complex story of nuclear armament and nation-building in Africa. And, rather surprisingly, the great Charles Dance showed up to play the season's main villain, giving it enough gusto to override most of the too-easy plot contrivances. All the neat explosions took care of the rest.Solar Sister is a network of women who sell solar lamp to communities that don't have access to electricity.
Hunted, another British co-production (this time with the BBC), is a subtler and decidedly smarter affair, a domestic spy drama about a wronged superagent (Melissa George) seeking undercover revenge. Its first season had more satisfyingly knotty mythology than Homeland, but blessedly didn't take itself so damn seriously. Sure, George's Sam Hunter (get the title now?) may be the worst spy ever — breaking into the bad guy's office in broad daylight while he's in the other room is maybe not the best idea! — but she's an intriguing central figure nonetheless. George was supported ably by the likes of Stephen Dillane and confirmed dreamboat Adam Rayner, playing shadowy colleagues/potential foes of Sam's with lots of pleasing modulation and mystery. The first season ended with a wonderful twist, something we couldn't see coming miles away, like, say Abu Nazir's wicked master plan.Australian business bringing a new class of affordable and quality Laser engraver and laser cutting machines. Classier than Strike Back but no less viscerally engaging, Hunted was an unexpected highlight of the late-2012 TV season. We were sad to hear that the BBC has dropped its partnership with the show and that Hunted's second season will likely look very different because of it, but at least creator Frank Spotnitz and his star are still aboard.
And then there's Banshee, which is definitely the weirdest of the three series. Set in rural-ish Pennsylvania, the show focuses on an ex-con who turns up in the titular town to find his long-lost lady love, only to wind up becoming the sheriff by way of a deadly fight and a case of mistaken identity. He squares off against the de facto town leader, a sinister fellow with evil henchmen and ties to the Amish community. At just three episodes in, Banshee is already an engaging potboiler, at turns silly and kinda sexy. It's Cinemax's first purely native show, and it indicates good things for the future. That future includes another action series, called Sandbox, and, supposedly, a TV version of the Transporter films. So, Cinemax knows its brand. It's action with a dash of wit, plus just enough oddity to keep it original. It's FX to HBO's AMC.
Cinemax is lucky to be owned by HBO — they don't have to compete with their polished, prestige-ified big brother. Unlike Showtime, Cinemax does not seem burdened with aspirations of grandeur; they can roll around in the muck and grunt all they want. This is not, for time being anyway, a network that's trying to win any Peabodys. That's a nice change of pace for non-HBO premium cable. Hopefully the dribbles of praise they've been getting of late won't go to their heads. I like the network muscly and goofy; swagger and sweat become it, and too much glossiness wouldn't. I like also what Cinemax's recent intriguing developments suggest about another evolution of the television landscape. They're now succeeding where Starz largely stumbled and failed. So maybe we're truly ready for another round of new offerings. And, lo, here comes House of Cards on Netflix, as well as the rebooted, slimmed-down Arrested Development. And, further off, there will be whatever Amazon Studios turns into. Hopefully expectations can be managed on these new platforms and they'll succeed at courting a niche audience rather than flailing after wider appeal.
Radical advances in military science sometimes arrive from far afield. Take Kevlar, invented to reinforce radial tires years before it saw use in body armor and helmets. Similarly, the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, one of the most popular military spy drones, arose from technology created to help fishing fleets find schools of tuna.
Now, a brewing legal war over the fish-finder-turned-weapon has opened a window on a rarely examined side of military contracting: ideas and intellectual property. How do you untangle who really owns the technology the U.S. government buys and deploys in battle?
A swept-wing UAV with a 10-foot wingspan, ScanEagle has become an ISR workhorse,Don't make another silicone mold without these invaluable Mold Making supplies and accessories! deployed everywhere from Iraq to Somalia. Its manufacturer, Insitu, had $400 million in sales last year. Iran in December claimed to have captured one. And in fact, this fall, as tensions with Iran ratcheted higher, the Navy awarded another contract to Insitu to deploy, fly and maintain two more ScanEagle systems from warships in the Persian Gulf. It’s a drop in the bucket in the steady stream of contracts for the system.
Among the features that make the drone well-suited to deployment from a ship’s flight deck or a small combat outpost is its ability to land without a runway. Crews connect a taut cable to a vertical boom, then fly the little airplane so it snags the cable with a hook on its wing. They recover it easily, sliding it off the cable like a fish from a line.
That simple, ingenious feature, which Insitu calls SkyHook, is at the center of a legal war far from the conflict zone, in federal courts in Missouri and Washington, D.C. The stakes could be several hundred million dollars; the combatants bear familiar names.
On the one side of the legal struggle: an inventor who is a member of a defense-contracting dynasty. His name is William “Randy” McDonnell — as in McDonnell Douglas. He says he came up with the Skyhook landing system and that he is owed,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheadavailable anywhere. big-time, for its use in ScanEagle. The lawsuits were filed under the name of McDonnell’s company, Advanced Aerospace Technologies Inc.
2013年1月28日星期一
Meet Brad Keselowski
Brad Keselowski steps into the radio world's version of mission
control: three computer screens, a microphone and an on-air mixing board
that looked space age compared to the primitive dash of his Sprint Cup
car.
Like he has since team owner Roger Penske gave him a full-time Cup ride in 2010,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. the 28-year-old made the show his.
Other than a slight mishap with a mouse when he should have pushed the play button -- what's a few seconds of dead air? -- Keselowski was almost flawless introducing songs, reading station promos and keeping listeners informed on a winter storm that was engulfed the area.
He rambled off DJ terms such as "hitting the post" as naturally as he would "wedge adjustment."
Station executive Jack Daniel was so impressed that he stuck his head in the studio door 30 minutes in and said: "If you ever retire from that driving job you can do this."
Keselowski was so good that he got a new nickname: "Bradass."
Athletes often get opportunities most of us don't -- in this case to fulfill a "boyhood dream" -- because of their celebrity status. This one was born from a conversation Keselowski had with DZL last season when he repeatedly questioned the host's song selections.
DZL finally told him to win the Cup championship and "you can come and play whatever you want."
Not long after Keselowski captured the title in November and delivered the unforgettable "SportsCenter" "buzz" moment with his giant pilsner beer glass interview, the wheels for this day were put in motion.
WEND's Patrick Sills admittedly was skeptical. Athletes often underdeliver in his world of Metallica and Pearl Jam, arriving with a script to promote an agenda and never showing their true personality.
He hadn't heard much of Keselowski,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. who turned the NASCAR world upside down at the 2012 Daytona 500 when he tweeted from his car after Juan Pablo Montoya hit a jet dryer to stop the race.
Less than 10 minutes after Keselowski entered the building,Service Report a problem with a street light. particularly after the driver asked if he could say "'f--- you' on the radio," Sills knew this was going to be good.
"He nailed it," Sills said as he monitored social media feeds.
There were times, beginning with the selection of Kid Rock's "You Never Met A M----------- Quite Like Me" as his opening song,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! when Keselowski had station executives worried.
The Penske Racing driver addressed everything from "farting" in his firesuit -- "It's got nowhere to go," he informed -- to a video that he swore would make most "throw up in 10 seconds."
It was almost an hour before the first hour of the show, when Keselowski would be in the passenger seat for 60 minutes before taking over,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! and a winter storm had the guest host running late for the production meeting. No worries. Everyone adapted.
"I feel like I need a hoodie," said Keselowski, wearing blue jeans, a fleece jacket and a Miller Lite cap, as he entered the room. "I was going to come in sweatpants to feel real authentic."
Radio hosts aren't known for their on-air fashion style and Keselowski knew it. DZL was prepared just in case, presenting Keselowski with what he called a rock DJ jacket, in this case a black coat with the name of the show on the back.
The production meeting was a bit more serious. DZL tried to explain that Keselowski's opening song contained words the station can't play, that even the cleaned-up version needed approval to be aired before the evening hours.
DZL suggested perhaps there was another song Keselowski might want to consider. Keselowski was adamant about the one he chose because it "personifies who I am."
"I might say, 'Let's do it,'" another member of DZL's team said in the small office decorated with electric guitars and a Metallica poster. "Let's get crazy."
This was a moment Keselowski had awaited since he and his brother worked in their parents' race shop in Rochester, Mich., 35 minutes outside of "Rock City" Detroit.
He recalled that when his parents went to race they'd leave him with his grandmother, and how she would go to bed around 7:30 p.m., leaving him and his cousin to turn up the volume on rock classics such as Led Zeppelin.
That was obvious from his song selection, which ranged from "Whatever" by Godsmack to "Outside" by Staind to "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine.
DZL applauded the texture and variety of Keselowski's selections and approved the playlist, pending approval of the opener that eventually came.
Like he has since team owner Roger Penske gave him a full-time Cup ride in 2010,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. the 28-year-old made the show his.
Other than a slight mishap with a mouse when he should have pushed the play button -- what's a few seconds of dead air? -- Keselowski was almost flawless introducing songs, reading station promos and keeping listeners informed on a winter storm that was engulfed the area.
He rambled off DJ terms such as "hitting the post" as naturally as he would "wedge adjustment."
Station executive Jack Daniel was so impressed that he stuck his head in the studio door 30 minutes in and said: "If you ever retire from that driving job you can do this."
Keselowski was so good that he got a new nickname: "Bradass."
Athletes often get opportunities most of us don't -- in this case to fulfill a "boyhood dream" -- because of their celebrity status. This one was born from a conversation Keselowski had with DZL last season when he repeatedly questioned the host's song selections.
DZL finally told him to win the Cup championship and "you can come and play whatever you want."
Not long after Keselowski captured the title in November and delivered the unforgettable "SportsCenter" "buzz" moment with his giant pilsner beer glass interview, the wheels for this day were put in motion.
WEND's Patrick Sills admittedly was skeptical. Athletes often underdeliver in his world of Metallica and Pearl Jam, arriving with a script to promote an agenda and never showing their true personality.
He hadn't heard much of Keselowski,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. who turned the NASCAR world upside down at the 2012 Daytona 500 when he tweeted from his car after Juan Pablo Montoya hit a jet dryer to stop the race.
Less than 10 minutes after Keselowski entered the building,Service Report a problem with a street light. particularly after the driver asked if he could say "'f--- you' on the radio," Sills knew this was going to be good.
"He nailed it," Sills said as he monitored social media feeds.
There were times, beginning with the selection of Kid Rock's "You Never Met A M----------- Quite Like Me" as his opening song,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! when Keselowski had station executives worried.
The Penske Racing driver addressed everything from "farting" in his firesuit -- "It's got nowhere to go," he informed -- to a video that he swore would make most "throw up in 10 seconds."
It was almost an hour before the first hour of the show, when Keselowski would be in the passenger seat for 60 minutes before taking over,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! and a winter storm had the guest host running late for the production meeting. No worries. Everyone adapted.
"I feel like I need a hoodie," said Keselowski, wearing blue jeans, a fleece jacket and a Miller Lite cap, as he entered the room. "I was going to come in sweatpants to feel real authentic."
Radio hosts aren't known for their on-air fashion style and Keselowski knew it. DZL was prepared just in case, presenting Keselowski with what he called a rock DJ jacket, in this case a black coat with the name of the show on the back.
The production meeting was a bit more serious. DZL tried to explain that Keselowski's opening song contained words the station can't play, that even the cleaned-up version needed approval to be aired before the evening hours.
DZL suggested perhaps there was another song Keselowski might want to consider. Keselowski was adamant about the one he chose because it "personifies who I am."
"I might say, 'Let's do it,'" another member of DZL's team said in the small office decorated with electric guitars and a Metallica poster. "Let's get crazy."
This was a moment Keselowski had awaited since he and his brother worked in their parents' race shop in Rochester, Mich., 35 minutes outside of "Rock City" Detroit.
He recalled that when his parents went to race they'd leave him with his grandmother, and how she would go to bed around 7:30 p.m., leaving him and his cousin to turn up the volume on rock classics such as Led Zeppelin.
That was obvious from his song selection, which ranged from "Whatever" by Godsmack to "Outside" by Staind to "Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine.
DZL applauded the texture and variety of Keselowski's selections and approved the playlist, pending approval of the opener that eventually came.
‘We didn’t throw things at each other…’
Writing about a writer is difficult, and writing about the author of a
book that changed the literary landscape forever is nothing short of
terrifying.Welcome to www.drycabinets.net!
Happily, Salman Rushdie is remarkably easy to talk to and extremely
matter-of-fact about the alchemy that creates those dizzying staircases
of words on which he takes the reader on magic, swirling trips.
So there we were on blistery, bright afternoon in Bangalore with actor Shriya Saran, director Deepa Mehta and super-articulate Salman talking about the film version of his adamantly unfilmable baap of Bookers,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. Midnight’s Children.
“Really easy, I just took out chunks,” Salman says with a laugh. “The script began at more than double the length. The first version was 250 pages, which was obviously ridiculous. It would have been a four-and-a-half-hour film! It was just a process of finding what was essential and what was not. The novel is deliberately digressional. I think some of the stories are quite interesting, but in a movie you have to find that true line that will grab you at the beginning,” he says.
About the collaboration, Salman says with a laugh, “We didn’t throw things at each other; it is difficult to throw things from New York to Toronto! It was oddly civilised. We would disagree, but then we would just argue it out.” “It was always about the film,” adds Deepa. “It wasn’t about the ego.”
Salman admits to the challenge of presenting magic realism on screen. “In a film that basically looks naturalistic, how do you integrate magic into the real world without it looking stupid? The effects were some of the hardest things to get right.”
A case of the book being the canvas of the mind while a film is on a canvas of celluloid. “Film, in general, has a problem with interiority,” Salman says. “Film is all ‘do’. You have to understand the interior life through exterior action. Here is something that is happening inside the character’s head. How do you represent that?”
The film has done the festival circuit, and Salman talks of “two of the funniest comments we heard. There was this person who said, ‘it is like Forrest Gump with brown people! I wanted to say this book was written a long time before Forrest Gump, so maybe Forrest Gump is like Midnight’s Children with white people! And someone else compared it to X-Men — you know people with magical powers!”
The author admits to enjoying his new space — promoting a film rather than a novel. “The fun thing is other people can do some of the talking! I spent most of my life sitting in a room with myself, scribbling. Suddenly to be working with other people was a very new and nice thing for me. After all these years of writing novels, I have been working on three projects, and none of them has been a novel — my book which is non-fiction, the screen play, and I am in the relatively early stage of developing a TV series. I am now sort of itching to get back into the room by myself.”
About the TV series he is working on, Salman says: “It is a bit of science fiction and a bit of politics and very, very weird. Weird is what does best in cable television drama. Nobody wants another police detective story. But a detective who is a serial killer in his spare time is good. I guess they came to me because they thought here is somebody who can do weird!”
The film has several languages, including “Kashmiri, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, some Hindi and some English”, says Salman. “There is a scene at the end of the Bangladesh war where the Pakistani general has to surrender to his Indian counterpart. In that generation, they’d all have gone to Sandhurst, and would be whiskey-soda guys, speaking whiskey-soda English—‘bad show old sport’ kind of thing. While the film is primarily in English, it is adulterated with other languages.”
Subtitles, Salman says “are not a problem anymore, thanks to Slumdog Millionaire. It showed the American distributors that subtitles don’t matter. Where possible, the subtitles are very close, if not exactly like the dialogue in the novel. So it was another way of having the flavour of the novel in writing on screen. When the Kashmiri boatman says ‘that is a nose to start a family on’, he is saying it in Kashmiri, but the subtitles use the actual line from the book.”
Harper's government claims the revamped law will enhance property ownership and economic growth in designated Aboriginal lands that are hurting economically. Of course, the methods they want to employ are based on the same philosophy that has oppressed native people since Europeans first arrived on American shores and First Nations people have not been consulted with in the whole ramming through of Bill C-45 in the Canadian Parliament.
They want to ease federal regulations to make it easier for big corporations and (compliant?) Canadian provincial governments to promote economic growth, but based on rules that pay no attention to sustainability, that trample native fishing rights,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. and that are based on artificial map boundaries that bear no relation to the fragile reality of ecosystems.
What's also so disturbing about what's happening in Canada is that those in power are, once again, pitting native Aboriginal groups against each other in the quest to achieve goals that most certainly are not focused on the welfare of those First Nations people. Of course, this tried and true strategy has worked throughout the ages when the powerful seek to take from the less powerful. Keep them impoverished, then promise them good-paying jobs and thriving, rich communities if they just...allow a corporation to come in and rape the landscape. Be really nice to the tribal people based upstream and "share" the riches from the minerals or oil extracted there, but ignore those that are downstream and who will be (literally) pissed on when polluted waters kill their fish and destroy their drinking water.
And that brings us to another typical aspect of this proposal in Ottawa. It's one that is very familiar here in the U.S. Neoliberal policies are completely wedded to, and happily ever after with, the practice of displacement of costs.
The Harper government wants to give more power to Provincial governments by weakening federal environmental regulations, which is the same game that's been played for decades by right-wingers here in the United States. Promise the high-paying jobs in one community and to hell with the town...or province...or other country...and any ecosystems that are downstream. Play them off against each other and laugh all the way to the bank while the planet dies and those that you exploit are fighting amongst themselves. All the while, get the compliant, mainstream media to play your tune to the masses and keep them ill-informed, distracted, and divided.
The divide and conquer approach by the powers-that-be has been applied repeatedly throughout the world so corporate interests benefit economically at the expense of the environment and poorer people (the 99%, in their world view). Here in the U.S., this strategy is currently in overdrive with the Keystone pipeline issue, pitting small farmers, environmentalists, tribal people, and others against labor unions. It's also happening with mountaintop removal in West Virginia and other states, and with the proposed "coal trains" that are intended to ship mountains of coal to China by ferrying the material across the west- and Pacific-coast states to various ports. Locals who are desperate for work in an economy that is being held hostage by corporate interests and their puppets in the U.S.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! government are pitted against others who are adversely affected by that economic development that benefits the first group.
As Idle No More and other grassroots movements such as Occupy Wall Street emphasize again, it's all about an economic/political system with "values" that do not focus on the future or the common good, but only on short-term gain (for a few).Service Report a problem with a street light. These movements remind that if those in power prioritized sustainability and renewable energy resources, for instance, that we would all benefit. The planet can be protected and sustainable jobs created as well. But the few who benefit massively from the predominant, neoliberal model would be deprived of their massive, short-term profits, especially those in the extraction industries.
Therefore, in the instance of Bill C-45 and the native people in Canada, the latter must be forced to speak the English of that economic system, ostensibly for their own good. It's just another example of the same old arrogance and paternalism of the western European model that's always been shoved down the throats of native people.
The Idle No More effort is also a stark reminder that no country is immune from the ravages of the neoliberal, corporate global rule model. For many progressives in the United States, for instance, Canada has been perceived as the "kinder, gentler" nation, where the common good has always been recognized as an essential part of the culture. This is the land where draft evaders could flee the U.S. during the Vietnam War and many fantasized about moving to during years of the far-right swing under George W. Bush.
Apparently, that's no longer the case, under Harper. This became clear when Canada began shipping back Iraq war evaders and is more apparent now with the Harper government's policies that display contempt for anything "environmental."
Maybe that's a good thing. So now the global emperor is even more without clothes and a wake-up call has been issued to us all. While the powers-that-be want to tear down boundary lines for the purposes of their making big profits, such as through "free" trade deals, they don't want to extend that philosophy to the 99% if it means environmental protections or labor rights. And they most certainly don't want movements such as Idle No More to begin transcending the boundaries that they have established to keep us all divided and conquered.
So there we were on blistery, bright afternoon in Bangalore with actor Shriya Saran, director Deepa Mehta and super-articulate Salman talking about the film version of his adamantly unfilmable baap of Bookers,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. Midnight’s Children.
“Really easy, I just took out chunks,” Salman says with a laugh. “The script began at more than double the length. The first version was 250 pages, which was obviously ridiculous. It would have been a four-and-a-half-hour film! It was just a process of finding what was essential and what was not. The novel is deliberately digressional. I think some of the stories are quite interesting, but in a movie you have to find that true line that will grab you at the beginning,” he says.
About the collaboration, Salman says with a laugh, “We didn’t throw things at each other; it is difficult to throw things from New York to Toronto! It was oddly civilised. We would disagree, but then we would just argue it out.” “It was always about the film,” adds Deepa. “It wasn’t about the ego.”
Salman admits to the challenge of presenting magic realism on screen. “In a film that basically looks naturalistic, how do you integrate magic into the real world without it looking stupid? The effects were some of the hardest things to get right.”
A case of the book being the canvas of the mind while a film is on a canvas of celluloid. “Film, in general, has a problem with interiority,” Salman says. “Film is all ‘do’. You have to understand the interior life through exterior action. Here is something that is happening inside the character’s head. How do you represent that?”
The film has done the festival circuit, and Salman talks of “two of the funniest comments we heard. There was this person who said, ‘it is like Forrest Gump with brown people! I wanted to say this book was written a long time before Forrest Gump, so maybe Forrest Gump is like Midnight’s Children with white people! And someone else compared it to X-Men — you know people with magical powers!”
The author admits to enjoying his new space — promoting a film rather than a novel. “The fun thing is other people can do some of the talking! I spent most of my life sitting in a room with myself, scribbling. Suddenly to be working with other people was a very new and nice thing for me. After all these years of writing novels, I have been working on three projects, and none of them has been a novel — my book which is non-fiction, the screen play, and I am in the relatively early stage of developing a TV series. I am now sort of itching to get back into the room by myself.”
About the TV series he is working on, Salman says: “It is a bit of science fiction and a bit of politics and very, very weird. Weird is what does best in cable television drama. Nobody wants another police detective story. But a detective who is a serial killer in his spare time is good. I guess they came to me because they thought here is somebody who can do weird!”
The film has several languages, including “Kashmiri, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, some Hindi and some English”, says Salman. “There is a scene at the end of the Bangladesh war where the Pakistani general has to surrender to his Indian counterpart. In that generation, they’d all have gone to Sandhurst, and would be whiskey-soda guys, speaking whiskey-soda English—‘bad show old sport’ kind of thing. While the film is primarily in English, it is adulterated with other languages.”
Subtitles, Salman says “are not a problem anymore, thanks to Slumdog Millionaire. It showed the American distributors that subtitles don’t matter. Where possible, the subtitles are very close, if not exactly like the dialogue in the novel. So it was another way of having the flavour of the novel in writing on screen. When the Kashmiri boatman says ‘that is a nose to start a family on’, he is saying it in Kashmiri, but the subtitles use the actual line from the book.”
Harper's government claims the revamped law will enhance property ownership and economic growth in designated Aboriginal lands that are hurting economically. Of course, the methods they want to employ are based on the same philosophy that has oppressed native people since Europeans first arrived on American shores and First Nations people have not been consulted with in the whole ramming through of Bill C-45 in the Canadian Parliament.
They want to ease federal regulations to make it easier for big corporations and (compliant?) Canadian provincial governments to promote economic growth, but based on rules that pay no attention to sustainability, that trample native fishing rights,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. and that are based on artificial map boundaries that bear no relation to the fragile reality of ecosystems.
What's also so disturbing about what's happening in Canada is that those in power are, once again, pitting native Aboriginal groups against each other in the quest to achieve goals that most certainly are not focused on the welfare of those First Nations people. Of course, this tried and true strategy has worked throughout the ages when the powerful seek to take from the less powerful. Keep them impoverished, then promise them good-paying jobs and thriving, rich communities if they just...allow a corporation to come in and rape the landscape. Be really nice to the tribal people based upstream and "share" the riches from the minerals or oil extracted there, but ignore those that are downstream and who will be (literally) pissed on when polluted waters kill their fish and destroy their drinking water.
And that brings us to another typical aspect of this proposal in Ottawa. It's one that is very familiar here in the U.S. Neoliberal policies are completely wedded to, and happily ever after with, the practice of displacement of costs.
The Harper government wants to give more power to Provincial governments by weakening federal environmental regulations, which is the same game that's been played for decades by right-wingers here in the United States. Promise the high-paying jobs in one community and to hell with the town...or province...or other country...and any ecosystems that are downstream. Play them off against each other and laugh all the way to the bank while the planet dies and those that you exploit are fighting amongst themselves. All the while, get the compliant, mainstream media to play your tune to the masses and keep them ill-informed, distracted, and divided.
The divide and conquer approach by the powers-that-be has been applied repeatedly throughout the world so corporate interests benefit economically at the expense of the environment and poorer people (the 99%, in their world view). Here in the U.S., this strategy is currently in overdrive with the Keystone pipeline issue, pitting small farmers, environmentalists, tribal people, and others against labor unions. It's also happening with mountaintop removal in West Virginia and other states, and with the proposed "coal trains" that are intended to ship mountains of coal to China by ferrying the material across the west- and Pacific-coast states to various ports. Locals who are desperate for work in an economy that is being held hostage by corporate interests and their puppets in the U.S.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! government are pitted against others who are adversely affected by that economic development that benefits the first group.
As Idle No More and other grassroots movements such as Occupy Wall Street emphasize again, it's all about an economic/political system with "values" that do not focus on the future or the common good, but only on short-term gain (for a few).Service Report a problem with a street light. These movements remind that if those in power prioritized sustainability and renewable energy resources, for instance, that we would all benefit. The planet can be protected and sustainable jobs created as well. But the few who benefit massively from the predominant, neoliberal model would be deprived of their massive, short-term profits, especially those in the extraction industries.
Therefore, in the instance of Bill C-45 and the native people in Canada, the latter must be forced to speak the English of that economic system, ostensibly for their own good. It's just another example of the same old arrogance and paternalism of the western European model that's always been shoved down the throats of native people.
The Idle No More effort is also a stark reminder that no country is immune from the ravages of the neoliberal, corporate global rule model. For many progressives in the United States, for instance, Canada has been perceived as the "kinder, gentler" nation, where the common good has always been recognized as an essential part of the culture. This is the land where draft evaders could flee the U.S. during the Vietnam War and many fantasized about moving to during years of the far-right swing under George W. Bush.
Apparently, that's no longer the case, under Harper. This became clear when Canada began shipping back Iraq war evaders and is more apparent now with the Harper government's policies that display contempt for anything "environmental."
Maybe that's a good thing. So now the global emperor is even more without clothes and a wake-up call has been issued to us all. While the powers-that-be want to tear down boundary lines for the purposes of their making big profits, such as through "free" trade deals, they don't want to extend that philosophy to the 99% if it means environmental protections or labor rights. And they most certainly don't want movements such as Idle No More to begin transcending the boundaries that they have established to keep us all divided and conquered.
Genius GX Gaming Series Cavimanus headset review
Over the last few years the gaming headset market has become
saturated with products, with many companies launching similar versions
of the same headset multiple times in a single year. With technology
improving every financial quarter it can be hard to find that sweet
middle-ground where price meets functionality, hard but not impossible.
When technology like 7.1 surround sound, omnidirectional microphones and dolby digital qualifications were first announced, you could expect to pay hundreds of dollars to obtain these features in a headset. Now these technologies are becoming standard, and product manufactures have found cheaper ways to include these features into more affordable headphones. Offering things like ‘Virtual 7.1 Surround Sound’ is a great way to include a higher-end feature at a low-market value, if it is done correctly.
That’s what I found after reviewing the ‘Cavimanus’ headset from Genius this past week. I’ve had the luxury of having top-brand headsets, well over $200 float across my office desk since I started writing reviews a few years ago. While their sound quality is usually the best in class, there came a point in recent years when the technology reached an apex. Just like when televisions when 1080p became the new standard, headsets with 7.1 surround sound and adjustable features found their own pinnacle moment and reached a point where sound was being produced at such a clear level, that improving it just became unnecessary for the general population.
When this happens in technology the companies producing these products can start working on the other aspects of the headsets that will make them more convenient,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. and cheaper, for the consumer. I feel this is exactly what the Cavimanus headset set-out to do. It includes the standard fatures that gamers have come to expect in a headset, ’7.1 surround sound’ is emulated with ‘virtual 7.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you!1 surround sound’ and there is an ample bass mechanic and software that allows the consumer to personalize the sound for their experiences. The Cavimanus also improves the basics that provide a better overall experience for the user.
Out of the box the Cavimanus has a list of technical specifications that any reviewer could just list off, and for the average consumer this does very little to help them pick a headset that will justify the price that they have to spend. I’ve had ‘high-end’ headsets snap in two after two months, have cords and ‘user controls’ that sit on the wires and became more annoying than I ever thought possible, and software that was so convoluted that I really questioned who these products were being targeted for. The technical specs on a box won’t help you avoid these troubles, but I will try.
With the Cavimanus headset I can confidently state who these headphones were designed for, gamers that love to play games and not play with settings for hours. I wouldn’t say these are the perfect match for the tech-junkies that need to have every number on the box be the most up-to-date version or the audiophiles that can tell you the frequency response from any headset just by touching it. These are for the general population, that want a great headset with modern features at a reasonable price.Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! People that want to enjoy the amazing sound that their PC or Mac can produce; without having to learn the ins and outs of sound design, and audio technology.
Here’s what the Cavimanus did right. First of all, the volume controls are located on the headset on the left ear-piece. Pretend you are putting on a pair of over-the-ear headsets right now. Feel where your thumb is on you left hand? That’s exactly where the volume control is and it’s perfect. Before this I had a very popular headset manufacturer send me one of their latest over-the-ear wired headsets with the volume control in-line on the cord (think iPhone headsets with Mic). Even though the control had a clip that was designed to attach to a shirt, I found it annoying to use or I would just forget to clip it. Now to be fair, that was my doing and I admit that but was annoying about that design was that without clipping it, my moving around while playing would cause the dial to ramp up the volume to ear-blistering levels unexpectedly, or mute when I didn’t want it to. It was a chore, clipping it was a chore and it wasn’t an option because if you didn’t you would destroy your brain with kids screaming and guns blazing by simply moving around.
The next thing I loved in the Cacimanus, was the weight. Although carrying something in your hands that weighs 12oz feels like nothing, wearing that on your head for a few hours while gaming can be a noticeable distraction. The Cavimanus are extremely comfortable, they didn’t slide around I moved or get hot after hours of use. They fit tight around my ears, even after I had to adjust them to a longer length (is my head too big I wonder?) and weren’t really noticeable when playing. There’s only one cord as well, not a cord that goes to a box, that goes to 3 points on your PC, there’s one cord. The cord is also about 6 feet which is long enough to have at your desk and stand up if you have too, but not so long that it feels like you have a vine leaching from your PC or laptop.
Let’s talk features, if you have a PC then you are going to love the customization options that you can do with the included software. Almost everything is adjustable on the headsets and the software is self-explanatory and very easy to use, even if sound design isn’t you area of expertise. I tested the headset out on a Macbook Pro and they worked without any installation or drivers (Macbook Pro late 2011 edition). There are no drivers or software downloads available for Mac users but they did work right out of the box. To test them out on a standard game I loaded up ‘Guild Wars 2′ and hit the biggest lake I could find to test out the ambient sound and emulated surround-sound mechanic underwater. They worked beautifully, ambient sounds were light and clear,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. and it was very easy to tell if a noise was coming from the left, back. right or any other direction.
There is also an optional vibration mechanic, that seems to work when a certain sound range hits a particular volume. Its a really great feature and one that I hope is improved by game developers building it into games. Where this would shine is a survival-horror game, I can see this feature really upping the quality of sound-immersion in a game like Dead Space 3. The vibration is optional but I really enjoyed it and would love to see more features like this across the board in headsets. You can turn on/off the vibration by simply clicking a button on the headset near the earpiece.
If you want to get really technical, beyond standard uses there are a few things I would have liked to see changed. One, you can only use this headset on a PC or Mac, consoles are not available to use with this headset though the company does make headsets that work for more platforms. I asked if drivers and software would be available in the future for Mac, and it doesn’t appear to be in the works at this time. The vibration button doesn’t have a clear ‘on or off’ visual setting, but that’s not really a huge setback as it is just one button.
There is also no mute button, which isn’t really big deal on a PC or Mac since most games offer a ‘push-to-talk’ option within the settings.Service Report a problem with a street light. I liked the mic’s ability to fold up and down and it was very clear and very responsive. It ‘clicks’ into place and isn’t very long, which I like because if I bump it on something or push my hair out of my face I really do not like that microphone ‘scratching’ sound that some headsets produce when you accidentally touch the microphone.
Those are really the only setbacks to the headset, they come in at a MSRP of $79.99 but I found that you can pick them up for about $60 to $67 on sites like amazon. Even though the 7.1 Surround Sound is ‘virtual’ it was done really well and it’s the closest to actual 7.1 surround sound that I have found at this price-point. Though the technical-gamer might want something more authentic, I think the average consumer wold really enjoy the headsets and find them to be a perfect fit for their needs.
When technology like 7.1 surround sound, omnidirectional microphones and dolby digital qualifications were first announced, you could expect to pay hundreds of dollars to obtain these features in a headset. Now these technologies are becoming standard, and product manufactures have found cheaper ways to include these features into more affordable headphones. Offering things like ‘Virtual 7.1 Surround Sound’ is a great way to include a higher-end feature at a low-market value, if it is done correctly.
That’s what I found after reviewing the ‘Cavimanus’ headset from Genius this past week. I’ve had the luxury of having top-brand headsets, well over $200 float across my office desk since I started writing reviews a few years ago. While their sound quality is usually the best in class, there came a point in recent years when the technology reached an apex. Just like when televisions when 1080p became the new standard, headsets with 7.1 surround sound and adjustable features found their own pinnacle moment and reached a point where sound was being produced at such a clear level, that improving it just became unnecessary for the general population.
When this happens in technology the companies producing these products can start working on the other aspects of the headsets that will make them more convenient,Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data. and cheaper, for the consumer. I feel this is exactly what the Cavimanus headset set-out to do. It includes the standard fatures that gamers have come to expect in a headset, ’7.1 surround sound’ is emulated with ‘virtual 7.If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you!1 surround sound’ and there is an ample bass mechanic and software that allows the consumer to personalize the sound for their experiences. The Cavimanus also improves the basics that provide a better overall experience for the user.
Out of the box the Cavimanus has a list of technical specifications that any reviewer could just list off, and for the average consumer this does very little to help them pick a headset that will justify the price that they have to spend. I’ve had ‘high-end’ headsets snap in two after two months, have cords and ‘user controls’ that sit on the wires and became more annoying than I ever thought possible, and software that was so convoluted that I really questioned who these products were being targeted for. The technical specs on a box won’t help you avoid these troubles, but I will try.
With the Cavimanus headset I can confidently state who these headphones were designed for, gamers that love to play games and not play with settings for hours. I wouldn’t say these are the perfect match for the tech-junkies that need to have every number on the box be the most up-to-date version or the audiophiles that can tell you the frequency response from any headset just by touching it. These are for the general population, that want a great headset with modern features at a reasonable price.Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! People that want to enjoy the amazing sound that their PC or Mac can produce; without having to learn the ins and outs of sound design, and audio technology.
Here’s what the Cavimanus did right. First of all, the volume controls are located on the headset on the left ear-piece. Pretend you are putting on a pair of over-the-ear headsets right now. Feel where your thumb is on you left hand? That’s exactly where the volume control is and it’s perfect. Before this I had a very popular headset manufacturer send me one of their latest over-the-ear wired headsets with the volume control in-line on the cord (think iPhone headsets with Mic). Even though the control had a clip that was designed to attach to a shirt, I found it annoying to use or I would just forget to clip it. Now to be fair, that was my doing and I admit that but was annoying about that design was that without clipping it, my moving around while playing would cause the dial to ramp up the volume to ear-blistering levels unexpectedly, or mute when I didn’t want it to. It was a chore, clipping it was a chore and it wasn’t an option because if you didn’t you would destroy your brain with kids screaming and guns blazing by simply moving around.
The next thing I loved in the Cacimanus, was the weight. Although carrying something in your hands that weighs 12oz feels like nothing, wearing that on your head for a few hours while gaming can be a noticeable distraction. The Cavimanus are extremely comfortable, they didn’t slide around I moved or get hot after hours of use. They fit tight around my ears, even after I had to adjust them to a longer length (is my head too big I wonder?) and weren’t really noticeable when playing. There’s only one cord as well, not a cord that goes to a box, that goes to 3 points on your PC, there’s one cord. The cord is also about 6 feet which is long enough to have at your desk and stand up if you have too, but not so long that it feels like you have a vine leaching from your PC or laptop.
Let’s talk features, if you have a PC then you are going to love the customization options that you can do with the included software. Almost everything is adjustable on the headsets and the software is self-explanatory and very easy to use, even if sound design isn’t you area of expertise. I tested the headset out on a Macbook Pro and they worked without any installation or drivers (Macbook Pro late 2011 edition). There are no drivers or software downloads available for Mac users but they did work right out of the box. To test them out on a standard game I loaded up ‘Guild Wars 2′ and hit the biggest lake I could find to test out the ambient sound and emulated surround-sound mechanic underwater. They worked beautifully, ambient sounds were light and clear,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. and it was very easy to tell if a noise was coming from the left, back. right or any other direction.
There is also an optional vibration mechanic, that seems to work when a certain sound range hits a particular volume. Its a really great feature and one that I hope is improved by game developers building it into games. Where this would shine is a survival-horror game, I can see this feature really upping the quality of sound-immersion in a game like Dead Space 3. The vibration is optional but I really enjoyed it and would love to see more features like this across the board in headsets. You can turn on/off the vibration by simply clicking a button on the headset near the earpiece.
If you want to get really technical, beyond standard uses there are a few things I would have liked to see changed. One, you can only use this headset on a PC or Mac, consoles are not available to use with this headset though the company does make headsets that work for more platforms. I asked if drivers and software would be available in the future for Mac, and it doesn’t appear to be in the works at this time. The vibration button doesn’t have a clear ‘on or off’ visual setting, but that’s not really a huge setback as it is just one button.
There is also no mute button, which isn’t really big deal on a PC or Mac since most games offer a ‘push-to-talk’ option within the settings.Service Report a problem with a street light. I liked the mic’s ability to fold up and down and it was very clear and very responsive. It ‘clicks’ into place and isn’t very long, which I like because if I bump it on something or push my hair out of my face I really do not like that microphone ‘scratching’ sound that some headsets produce when you accidentally touch the microphone.
Those are really the only setbacks to the headset, they come in at a MSRP of $79.99 but I found that you can pick them up for about $60 to $67 on sites like amazon. Even though the 7.1 Surround Sound is ‘virtual’ it was done really well and it’s the closest to actual 7.1 surround sound that I have found at this price-point. Though the technical-gamer might want something more authentic, I think the average consumer wold really enjoy the headsets and find them to be a perfect fit for their needs.
Measure Heads To White House For Obama Signature
A $51 billion aid package for Hurricane Sandy victims easily passed
the Senate on Monday, after the failure of a Republican amendment to
require the relief be offset by cuts to other federal spending.
The long-delayed bill, coming three months after Sandy battered the Northeast, now goes to President Barack Obama, who is expected to quickly sign it into law.
The final tally, 62-36, was light on Republican support, with more than three-quarters of GOP senators voting against the full package. The amendment to require spending cuts offset the disaster relief funding, which was proposed by Sen. Mike Lee, was voted down along similar lines. GOP senators backed the Lee amendment by a wide majority, although several leading Republicans, including Sen. John McCain, joined Democrats to defeat it.
Northeast lawmakers blasted the amendment, noting that dozens of other disaster relief bills had passed in recent years without mandating cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data.
"There's no reason why we should treat this disaster, this emergency, this horror, any differently than we have past disasters," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, accused conservative backers of the amendment of hypocrisy, noting that Republicans had voted for hundreds of billions of dollars in spending on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars without regard for its impact on the deficit.
Supporters of the amendment disagreed, saying that massive federal deficits urgently required a new approach to disaster relief.
"We've got a trillion-dollar budget deficit," said Sen. Pat Toomey. "We're just adding another $60 billion right on top of that."
Sandy ranks among the most destructive storms in U.S. history. New York and New Jersey, which took the worst hits,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! suffered more than $70 billion in damage, according to state estimates. The $51 billion package contains billions for a federal program providing cash grants to disaster victims and roughly $33 billion for long-term reconstruction of battered coastal areas.
The Senate passed a $60 billion aid package for Sandy victims back in mid-December, but House Republicans failed to bring that bill up for a vote before the end of the last session of Congress. That failure drew the wrath of Northeast Republicans like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who said House GOP leaders had allowed the aid bill to fall victim to "toxic" internal politics.
In January, House Speaker John Boehner brought a new $51 billion relief package to the floor,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! where it passed with combination of Democratic and Republican votes. But more than two-thirds of the House Republican caucus voted against the full Sandy package.
A previous bill providing $9 billion to replenish the federal government's flood insurance fund passed the House and Senate and was signed into law by Obama in early January.
Unconquered Sun is a manufacturer of lightweight photovoltaic panels, located in Windsor, Ontario. In the past the company focused on residential and commercial rooftops, but it has recently turned to developing lightweight panels for golf carts. Sean Moore, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Unconquered Sun, sees a huge market in solar-powered golf carts, in part due to the new sustainability policies of golf associations but also because they make so much sense for golf course management. According to Unconquered Sun, golf courses with solar powered fleets reduce their consumption from the electric grid by 50 to 75% and can save $374 in operational costs per cart per year based on a fleet size of 80 vehicles. Additionally, the solar carts don’t pollute and provide a monitoring system so golf course management can see where any golf cart is at any given time.
Designing solar panels for golf carts is really no different than putting it on the roof of a house, according to Moore. But what is different is that they are higher wattage. At 275 Watts the challenge has been in charging the battery bank. To do so, the company developed a new induction technique that takes 31 volts on the panel and pumps it up to 56. Ultimately the solar panels are providing a continuous flow of energy or about 7 to 8 amps all day “except when your foot is on the pedal,Service Report a problem with a street light.” Moore added.
The panel design is very similar to that which would go on a house, except that the solar panel is the roof of a golf cart. It’s basically polycrystalline cells strung together in series, Moore said, but the geometry is a little different. And because the panel is actually the roof of the golf cart, some customized materials were required. To adhere the solar panel to the golf cart frame,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. they use a special double-coated black foam tape manufactured by FLEXcon.
The long-delayed bill, coming three months after Sandy battered the Northeast, now goes to President Barack Obama, who is expected to quickly sign it into law.
The final tally, 62-36, was light on Republican support, with more than three-quarters of GOP senators voting against the full package. The amendment to require spending cuts offset the disaster relief funding, which was proposed by Sen. Mike Lee, was voted down along similar lines. GOP senators backed the Lee amendment by a wide majority, although several leading Republicans, including Sen. John McCain, joined Democrats to defeat it.
Northeast lawmakers blasted the amendment, noting that dozens of other disaster relief bills had passed in recent years without mandating cuts elsewhere in the federal budget.Learn how an embedded microprocessor in a smart card can authenticate your computer usage and data.
"There's no reason why we should treat this disaster, this emergency, this horror, any differently than we have past disasters," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, accused conservative backers of the amendment of hypocrisy, noting that Republicans had voted for hundreds of billions of dollars in spending on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars without regard for its impact on the deficit.
Supporters of the amendment disagreed, saying that massive federal deficits urgently required a new approach to disaster relief.
"We've got a trillion-dollar budget deficit," said Sen. Pat Toomey. "We're just adding another $60 billion right on top of that."
Sandy ranks among the most destructive storms in U.S. history. New York and New Jersey, which took the worst hits,If we don't carry the bobblehead you want we can make a personalized bobbleheads for you! suffered more than $70 billion in damage, according to state estimates. The $51 billion package contains billions for a federal program providing cash grants to disaster victims and roughly $33 billion for long-term reconstruction of battered coastal areas.
The Senate passed a $60 billion aid package for Sandy victims back in mid-December, but House Republicans failed to bring that bill up for a vote before the end of the last session of Congress. That failure drew the wrath of Northeast Republicans like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who said House GOP leaders had allowed the aid bill to fall victim to "toxic" internal politics.
In January, House Speaker John Boehner brought a new $51 billion relief package to the floor,Welcome to www.drycabinets.net! where it passed with combination of Democratic and Republican votes. But more than two-thirds of the House Republican caucus voted against the full Sandy package.
A previous bill providing $9 billion to replenish the federal government's flood insurance fund passed the House and Senate and was signed into law by Obama in early January.
Unconquered Sun is a manufacturer of lightweight photovoltaic panels, located in Windsor, Ontario. In the past the company focused on residential and commercial rooftops, but it has recently turned to developing lightweight panels for golf carts. Sean Moore, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Unconquered Sun, sees a huge market in solar-powered golf carts, in part due to the new sustainability policies of golf associations but also because they make so much sense for golf course management. According to Unconquered Sun, golf courses with solar powered fleets reduce their consumption from the electric grid by 50 to 75% and can save $374 in operational costs per cart per year based on a fleet size of 80 vehicles. Additionally, the solar carts don’t pollute and provide a monitoring system so golf course management can see where any golf cart is at any given time.
Designing solar panels for golf carts is really no different than putting it on the roof of a house, according to Moore. But what is different is that they are higher wattage. At 275 Watts the challenge has been in charging the battery bank. To do so, the company developed a new induction technique that takes 31 volts on the panel and pumps it up to 56. Ultimately the solar panels are providing a continuous flow of energy or about 7 to 8 amps all day “except when your foot is on the pedal,Service Report a problem with a street light.” Moore added.
The panel design is very similar to that which would go on a house, except that the solar panel is the roof of a golf cart. It’s basically polycrystalline cells strung together in series, Moore said, but the geometry is a little different. And because the panel is actually the roof of the golf cart, some customized materials were required. To adhere the solar panel to the golf cart frame,I thought it would be fun to show you the inspiration behind the broken china-mosaics. they use a special double-coated black foam tape manufactured by FLEXcon.
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